Past events

7 days walking

Carole Howat and Ann Lawes, 2 violinist friends of Clarence are walking 95 miles to complete the West Highland Way (Glasgow to Fort William )

West Highland Way, Scotland

We would welcome any sponsorship for our efforts via my e mail address

ann.lawes1@ntlworld.com

Northern Highlights (for the Clarence Adoo Trust)

Matthew White (euphonium) - Finalist in BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist competition and 2008/09 Black Dyke Band Young Artist David Paynes - BBC Choirboy of the Year Finalist 2008 Clarence Adoo Ensemble - Top SA/contesting and orchestral players, conducted by Ray Farr Castleford Songsters/Choir, conducted by Delyth Ablett

Castleford Salvation Army, Booth Street, WF10 (behind the town bus station)

London Brass Symposium - "Classic Salvation Army Brass Music"

A large (35-piece) orchestral brass and percussion ensemble formed of players from London's professional orchestras, West-end show players and other freelance professional musicians under guest Salvation Army conductor Don Jenkins.

» See a part of the rehearsal on youtube

The Salvation Army, Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street London

The Clarence Adoo Brass Band with Peterborough Citadel Songsters (choir)

On this occasion, the band will be conducted by Howard J Evans, Bandmaster of Boscombe Band of The Salvation Army. The band is made up of professional and Salvationist brass players who have worked with and played alongside Clarence over the years. Players include Dudley Bright (Principal Trombone, London Symphony Orchestra), Paul Woodward (Co-Principal Trombone, Black Dyke Band) Phil Randell (former Tenor Horn Champion of Great Britain along with current and past members of The International Staff Band.

The Salvation Army, 1203 Bourges Boulevard, Peterborough, PE1 2AU

6th Annual Northern Highlights

Richard Martin (trumpet/cornet) Sue Blyth (vocal) The NEW Clarence Adoo Ensemble conducted by Richard Evans

Castleford Salvation Army Hall, Booth Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire

Durham Road Baptist Church, Gateshead.

The Church is on the corner of Gladstone Terrace, next to The Swallow Hotel. Please use the side entrance (on the Durham Road slip road) for access.

Revd David Hunt

94 Sunniside Road,
Sunniside,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE16 5NF Telephone and Fax: 0191 488 3433
e-mail: david@drghunt.freeserve.co.uk

Newcastle - South Shields 13 miles

I am taking part in the Great North Run and any sponsors I may receive are going to the Clarence Adoo Trust.

Many Thanks for your support.

Northern Highlights

Venue: The Salvation Army, Booth Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire WF10 1SA.

Mark Norwood - Vocal

Festival Brass - (Julian White)

Castleford Songsters (Derek Ward)

Tickets £7 and £5 concessions
Derek Baxter, Flat 25 Ings House, Ings Road,
Kinsley, Pontefract WF9 5EP
01977 618647 or 07779 182748
SAE, cheques to Clarence Adoo Trust

Saturday 26 May 2007

7.00pm

The Sage, Gateshead (Hall 2)

The Cobweb Orchestra

Clarence Adoo and Andy Jackson: conductors
Mike Cave: flute

Beethoven: Overture: ‘Coriolan’
Beethoven: Symphony no. 2
Fauré: Fantasie op.79 (arr. for flute and strings by Vieri Bottazzini)
Fauré: Dolly Suite

This is a first for Clarence. He has been working with the Cobweb Orchestra – the amateur orchestra associated with Northern Sinfonia – for many years but this is the first time he has appeared with them on stage. Conducting from his wheelchair using a baton attached to a headlight, Clarence presents an all-Beethoven programme in the first half of the concert.

Tickets:

A,B,C: £8

D,E: £6

Concessions Available

Box Office:
0191 443 4661

www.thesagegateshead.org

Tuesday 10 April 2007

6.00pm

Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal

Concert with Clarence adoo and Headspace featuring the world première of a new work by Rolf Gehlhaar and Martin Parker, commissioned by Fundação Casa da Música.

Follwoed by a workshop at 7.30pm

The Salvation Army Newcastle City Temple Carol Service

featuring the band, songsters, timbrellists and children and youth of the corps.

The City Temple, 146 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

Setting off from Clapham Common

The Salvation Army Boscombe YP Corps presents

Clarence Adoo Brass Band
and soloists
Conductor: Bramwell Tovey

Compères: Clarence Adoo And Bramwell Tovey
 

Venue: The Salvation Army, Palmerstone Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth

Supported by The Boscombe YP Sections

Tickets:
£6.00 Balcony Reserved
£4.00 Downstairs Unreserved

Contact for tickets
John Starkes:

01202 777952
E Mail: J.Starkes@Ntlworld.Com

Northern Highlights

Venue: The Salvation Army, Booth Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire WF10 1SA.

MARJORY WATSON
 

KEVIN and ANDREA ASHMAN

FESTIVAL BRASS

PETERBOROUGH TIMBRELS

CASTLEFORD SONGSTERS

Tickets £7 and £5 concessions
Derek Baxter, Flat 25 Ings House, Ings Road,
Kinsley, Pontefract WF9 5EP
01977 618647 or 07779 182748
SAE, cheques to Clarence Adoo Trust

Sunday February 26 2006

7.30 am

Monday 20 Feb 2006

7.30 pm

BBC Television NorthEast

Inside Out program features Clarence's performance on Headspace, filmed at The Sage on 9 February.

The Headspace Project

Hall Two, The Sage Gateshead

Northern Sinfonia trumpeter, Clarence Adoo, had his career cut short in 1995 when a car accident left him paralysed. This evening sees Clarence performing again, as designer Rolf Gehlhaar’s software enables Clarence to create a wide range of sounds, using subtle head movements coupled with small but delicate and precise breaths, as with a wind instrument. With trumpeter Torbj�rn Hultmark, trombonist John Kenny and sound projectionist Chris Wheeler, Clarence performs John Kenny’s composition ‘Headspace’, written specifically for this software of the same name, and ‘Voice of the Carnyx’ plus a short work by young people from the region using the software.

This event is being filmed by the local BBC for a documentary on BBC1

Oakham Rutland

Saturday 25th June 2005

7.00 pm

Northern Highlights 2005

3rd Annual Concert in aid of Clarence Adoo Trust

Castleford SA Hall, Booth Street, Castleford

Featuring:

Dudley Bright - Principal Trombone, London Symphony Orchestra
As one of the World's finest brass instrumentalists, Dudley is a member of the LSO and their 'all star' brass ensemble, playing alongside Maurice Murphy, Rod Franks etc.

Darren Bartlett - Celebrated soloist from The Salvation Army Boscombe Corps and International Staff Songsters

Festival Brass - a 14 piece group of young SA musicians under the leadership of Julian Bright. The group has travelled extensively in the UK and a few years ago, participated in the Great North American Brass Festival in the USA.

Castleford SA Songsters -This group is the organisers and 'resident' performers at the Northern Highlights concerts. Under the leadership of Derek Ward, the songsters are fast gaining a reputation as one of the SA's finest vocal groups.

(nb: Jude Goterich, who originally listed to take part, is now unfortunately unable to attend)

Tickets are £7 for Adults - £5 for concessions

northernhighlights@hotmail.com

Wednesday 22 June 2005

8.00pm

St Magnus Festival
Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney

Clarence is perfroming a piece on his computer instrument, Head Space (as seen on Songs of Praise)

http://www.stmagnusfestival.com/programme/2005/wednesday.htm